Avianca becomes first airline in South America to launch the innovative capacity optimization platform
THE first thing Amadeus Ventures did when the pandemic struck was to support its portfolio companies to “make sure the companies and people were in a safe place”, said Suzanna Chiu, head of the strategic funding programme that invests in early stage travel startups.
US tech-firm Volantio, in partnership with AirAsia India, brings ‘SmartAlerts’ technology to Indian consumers, a free ‘concierge-style’ personal flight shopper which reduces the time and hassle involved in finding the best fares for travel journeys.
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Volantio CEO Azim Barodawala announced (26-Jan-2021) a "significant growth and multi-year extension" of Volantio's partnership with Volaris.
In February, airline tech startup Volantio focused on helping airlines with full or nearly full flights tempt flexible passengers with compensation in exchange for rebooking on other flights. It also had a product for marketing automation, but that product wasn’t part of its sales deck’s main offer.
Azim Barodawala appeared as a guest on the show, How I Got Here, a weekly series produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.
Fittingly for a company that assists airlines, it is global having been founded in Melbourne Australia in 2014 but now based in Atlanta, Georgia in the US. Volantio’s main proposition is its Yana platform which launched in 2017 to help airlines to accommodate overbooked passengers.
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NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Airlines (SIA) have revealed that five startup companies have graduated from the inaugural SIA Accelerator Programme.
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Volantio, the travel tech startup that allows airlines and their customers to optimize booking, has secured an investment and a strategic partnership with Amadeus, a travel IT giant that works with over 120 carriers around the world.
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